{"id":48664,"date":"2024-09-13T08:04:31","date_gmt":"2024-09-13T08:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/edo-guber-policell-remain-impartial-professional-igp-egbetokun\/"},"modified":"2024-09-13T08:04:31","modified_gmt":"2024-09-13T08:04:31","slug":"edo-guber-policell-remain-impartial-professional-igp-egbetokun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/edo-guber-policell-remain-impartial-professional-igp-egbetokun\/","title":{"rendered":"Edo guber: Police\u2019ll remain impartial, professional \u2013 IGP Egbetokun"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Inspector-General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, has said that the police will provide a level playing ground for all political parties participating in the September 21 governorship election in Edo State.<\/p>\n<p>Egbetokun made this promise on Thursday in Benin during the signing of a peace accord by political parties and their candidates ahead of the election.<\/p>\n<p>The national peace committee led by Abubakar Abdulsalami, a former military head of state, initiated the peace accord.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its governorship candidate refused to sign the peace accord.<\/p>\n<p>The candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Monday Okpebholo, his Labour Party, LP, counterpart, Olumide Akpata and other political parties signed the peace accord.<\/p>\n<p>According to the IGP, the police will be neutral and professional, stressing that all stakeholders must work together to achieve a conducive environment for the poll.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m here today to reaffirm our commitment to a peaceful and secure electoral process.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe recognise the importance of this moment and the trust placed on us to protect the integrity of this election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will remain impartial, professional, and vigilant while providing a level playing ground for political parties and their candidates.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI urge all stakeholders to embrace peace, tolerance, and respect. Let\u2019s work together to create a conducive environment for a free, fair, and peaceful election, where every voter can exercise their rights to vote without fear and intimidation,\u201d the IGP said.<\/p>\n<p>Edo guber: Police\u2019ll remain impartial, professional \u2013 IGP Egbetokun<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Inspector-General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, has said that the police will provide a level playing ground for all political&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48665,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4709,2217,920,15,310],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-edo-guber","category-egbetokun","category-igp","category-news","category-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}